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19 February 2018

Mixed Media Twin Tags

Hi!!

I have a friend in Thailand, a restless traveler and photography lover, that always shows me amazing landscapes in her pictures. Huiching and I became friends in Photoblog and for me her photos are like an open window to the other side of the world. She is always sweet and kind, and I almost can see her smile when we chat despite of the thousand miles between the two of us. So I wanted to make something to thank her all these years of friendship.

Lately it has been hard to say goodbye to some of my creations and send them to the people for whom I made them. So this time I decided not to take the risk and, instead of one tag, I've made two. In one of them you can read ROADS GO EVER ON, this is the sentence that accompany all my friend's photos... and of course that tag is for her. In the other one, the sentence SAY YES TO NEW ADVENTURES is something I have on my door and I read it every time I leave my house.

I started by cutting two cardboard tags, I glued a beautiful 7 Dots paper (that has the months written... that's perfect for a traveler) and protected it with clear gesso. And when I was going to add colors, I realized this could be a good project to take part on February's 7 Dots Studio challenge! They now have a moodboard to inspire and you can make your own interpretation. So definitely the colors, the flowers and that road on the upper left corner photo inspired me to create my tags.

As I was saying, I was about to add color. I used three beautiful pastel tone Lindy's Magicals cause their shimmer would make the background shine as the sunset on the moodboard photos. I stamped some background elements and made a road with Nuvo mousse and a chevron stencil, right in the middle of the tags.

The main element of the tags is a compass rose with butterfly wings. I made them using Tim Holtz watch cameos and a butterfly design cut with my Silhouette. I changed the cameos color with Finnabair waxes and added the compass roses that I draw. The butterflies are lightly colored with Magical creme brulee cream, which is mainly with with some particles of pink, blue and yellow; then I covered them with Glossy Accents to make them look like crystal.

To make it more interesting, I added some chipboards, sequins waste, marabou feathers and mulberry flowers and leaves under the winged compass roses. I glued the sentences on the lower end and used some ribbon tinted in the same cosmopolitan pink used in the tag.

About me

Photographer and creative soul, I love to express myself through my creations and share what I know with you, experimenting with different techniques and mediums. I do that putting my heart on it. That is Meraki!